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Livelihoods in the Margins: Snippets from Rural Bengal |
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Padyatra in Srikakulam District |
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Reaching 5000 Adivasi Workers |
 A Jatha in Visakha District Andhra Pradesh with songs, street plays and puppet shows creating awareness on the National Rural Employment Guarantee and Right to Information Acts will cover 100 villages in two Mandals in 10 days (14 - 22 Feb 2012) and try to reach 5000 adivasis en route. It will conduct village meetings and register complaints. A padyatra in Srikakulam District will take place between Jan 26-30, 2012.
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5000 Adivasis Jatha Schedule _ Visakha Dist |
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Government of India Must Immediately Stop Perpetuating Forced/Bonded Labour |
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Open Statement By Signatories:
We the undersigned are deeply distressed at the recent decision by the Prime Minister (in a letter dated 31st December 2010) to delink MGNREGA wages from the Minimum Wages Act even while indexing the wage rate under NREGA to Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labour. The Government of India had already undermined the wages under NREGA through a January 2009 notification, when it imposed an unjust freeze at an arbitrary rate of Rs 100 per day on its wages. The Government of India’s use of Section 6(1) to delink NREGA wages from the Minimum Wage Act is not just bad in law but is also immoral in so far as it seeks to remove the basis of Constitutional and legal protection of the lowest end of workers in the wage hierarchy.
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